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Australia House was widely acclaimed as a successful building and it remains the home of the Australian High Commission to this day. The model it presented at the time was replicated by Britain’s other leading colonial Dominions and territories. Nearby, on the same Aldwych island site, rose India House (1926–30), to designs by Herbert Baker. Not long after would appear South Africa House (1931–33), on Trafalgar Square, also designed by Baker (with Alexander Thomson Scott). Across from it, on the other side of Trafalgar Square, the Canadian government acquired the original premises of the Union Club and Royal College of Physicians, completing a refurbishment in 1925 to house the Canadian High Commission.
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"It failed through youth [justice], children's services, through the court system [and] through the legislation that police have to work with." "But when we're talking about preventing the root causes and the drivers, we have to address those broader issues that sit outside the youth justice portfolio." According to Commissioner Lewis, the committee presented "an opportunity to overcome a real barrier to effective youth justice reform". "Politicisation is the greatest impediment to youth justice policy," Commissioner Natalie Lewis from Queensland's Family and Child Commission (QFCC) says. "When they are in our watch houses they are separated from adult prisoners and they're provided support through the Department of Youth Justice and other not-for-profit organisations," he said. "In some watch houses it's not physically possible to separate the adult inmates from the kids.
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As Australia had been six independent crown colonies before federation, a degree of rivalry existed between them. Indeed, even following political union, these states — as they became — jealously guarded their limited independence and sense of identity. This created a tension in the requirement of each state to be represented in the building, with their own office space. This was exacerbated by the fact that the government of Victoria already had its own premises at the south-west corner of the site (Victoria House), built in 1909. Tall and slender, this building was designed by Alfred Burr, with the assistance of Norman Shaw, in a heavily rusticated Baroque Classicism. It had been envisaged as the first instalment of a much larger building encompassing the other Australian states.
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Those laws, combined with an already stretched justice system, set the stage for a perfect storm, Queensland's Human Rights Commissioner says. "When we focus on sensationalising youth crime, a lot of the discourse becomes dominated by tough on crime rhetoric. The state's response to youth offending has been thrust into the spotlight, with an ABC investigation revealing the repeated institutional failures that helped create one of the state's youngest killers. "But there are reasons why they're in the watch house and that's because of their criminality or their conduct," he said.
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The Constitution of Australia of 1900 established the House of Representatives in a newly federated Australia. Members of the House are elected from single member electorates (geographic districts, commonly referred to as "seats" but officially known as "Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives"). One vote, one value legislation requires all electorates to have approximately the same number of voters with a maximum 10% variation.
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But, with a change of strategy, it presented something of a challenge, both politically and architecturally. Ultimately, the problem was solved by removing the existing gable and turret and remodelling the roof, enabling its seamless integration with the new and larger Australia House. A youth advocacy body is preparing to take legal action against the Queensland government for failing to protect young people in the state's watch houses. The House's well-established committee system is not always as prominent as the Senate committee system because of the frequent lack of Senate majority.
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The architects’ goal was to create a building, ‘architecturally worthy of the headquarters of the Commonwealth in the capital of the Empire’. Being a newly independent Dominion, Australia was, indeed, keen to make its presence felt in the Imperial capital. The youthful nation believed it had much to offer and saw a magisterial piece of architecture as an effective way of advertising its importance to the continued primacy and economic prosperity of Greater Britain on the world stage. This was an entirely fitting aspiration, as the events of the First World War would prove. During 18 months of research and consultation, the Chau Chak Wing conducted surveys of the public’s tolerance for the display of mummified items. The findings helped shape the museum’s decision to remove the “disarticulated” body parts, including the foot, as offensive and tainted by colonialism.
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Queensland's youth justice system has been at a dangerous tipping point for years, with political leaders cracking down on youth offending through "tough on crime" approaches. Youth justice remains a highly vexed issue in Queensland, with both sides of the political spectrum keenly aware it will be a deciding factor in the looming state election. The completed building features wood and marble shipped from Australia and sculptures carved by an Australian artist, Harold Parker. Today, it is renowned as one of the finest remaining examples of early 20th century architecture in London, which has made it popular with film productions including Wonder Woman and the Harry Potter franchise. When the foundation stone was laid on the Strand in 1913, Australia was a newly minted nation with just five million people.
The Youth Advocacy Centre has written a scathing letter to the state, after a "summer of human rights abuses," as described by the state’s Human Rights Commissioner. Ms Hayes said the case would be based on specific cases of children who have suffered maltreatment. “Outdoor projects are heating up across Australia, in particular, we can see users want to undertake improvement around their entrance areas, with searches for ‘front door’ inspiration experiencing a 666% year-on-year upswing. “There is something to be said about a moody wash space, and we’ve noticed a growing number of ‘dark’ inspired spaces cropping up in homes on Houzz, with searches growing up by 294% more than the previous year.
The timber panelling, as with nearly all the timberwork in the building, comprises native Australian wood, in this case Moreton Bay chestnut (Castanospermum australe), prized for its swarthy and grained appearance. The interiors of the building are also characterised by extensive use of metal and bronze componentry, such as doors, windows and balustrading, including that on the stairs and around the rotunda. In the upper levels and on the stairs, extensive use has been made of the distinctive creamy-white marble from Angaston in South Australia.
"The detention centres are overflowing because the arrest numbers have increased. That overflows into the adult watch houses, which are designed to only hold adults overnight or two nights at most," she said. A major landmark on Strand, construction on the building by the Dove Brothers commenced in 1913, but shipping problems caused by World War I delayed completion. It was officially opened by King George V in a 1918 ceremony attended by the Australian Prime Minister William Morris Hughes. The Commonwealth of Australia’s chief architect, John Smith Murdoch, travelled to London to work with the Mackenzie firm on the building.
While the survey found that 79% of respondents had no issue with seeing human remains on display in museums, there were important caveats. These included that any remains on display should not be within one or two generations of museum visitors. The museum is moving away from using the word “mummy” in favour of phrases such as “Ancient Egyptian mummified human remains” and “Egyptian mummified remains”. Pitkin says the Chau Chak Wing Museum is leading the world in developing and implementing new protocols surrounding the presentation of Egyptian mummified human remains. The academic discourse has been going on for probably ten years, but for museums to implement changes it’s been a really slow process,” Pitkin says.
In 1910, he was appointed Australia’s first high commissioner in London, a position he held until 1916, when he won a seat in the British House of Commons and became the only Australian to sit in the colonial, Commonwealth and Imperial parliaments. King George V presented this walking stick to Sir George Reid on the laying of the foundation stone of Australia’s high commission in London. Often caricatured over his rotund stature, Reid relied on a walking stick, and this one bears signs of wear. While Australia House far exceeded the needs of a small nation when it was first built, by its peak in the 1960s-70s, during the post-war era of assisted migration, it was bursting at its seams with more than 1000 staff.
Sally Capp (above), former agent-general for Victoria, prepares to play host to guests in her offices in the adjoining building, Victoria House. The agents-general were once the official diplomatic representatives of the Australian colonies in the capital of the empire, but today they focus on promoting tourism and business interests. The metalwork emphasises the ‘French’ element of the design, broadly reflecting Louis XIV taste. It also provides further opportunity for ornament, with symbolism appropriate to the building’s purpose and meaning woven through.
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